Clothes lifter



y 1951 E. P. ZIMMERLY I 2,554,608

CLOTHES LIFTER Filed April 1'7, 1950 Edward P; Z/mmer/y INVENTOR.

Patented May 29, 1951 OFFICE CLOTHES LIFTER Edward P. Zimmerly, Chicago,Ill., assignor to Estelle Anne Zimmerly, Chicago, 111.

Application April 17, 1950, Serial No. 156,306

1 Claim.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes liftingdevices and the primary object of the present invention is to provide astick for stirring, turning and lifting clothes in a convenient mannerwithout the user having to handle the clothes or contact hot water inwhich the clothes are being soaked or washed.

Another very important object of the present invention is to provide aclothes lifter including a tip so constructed and shaped as to permitthe tip to effectively grip a garment as the tip is rotated by a user.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a clotheslifting stick that is extremely strong and reliable in use to permit thelifting of relatively heavy and wet clothes and with the stick ofsufficient length to provide the necessary leverage action.

A still further aim of the present invention is to provide a clotheslifter that is simple and practical in construction, easy to handle,inexpensive to manufacture, and otherwise Well adapted for the purposesfor which the same is intended.

Other objects and advantages reside in the details of construction andoperation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein likenumerals refer to lik parts throughout, and in which:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of the present clothes lifter;

Figure 2 is an enlarged end view of the present clothes lifter; and,

Figure 3 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view takensubstantially on the plane of section line 3-3 of Figure 2,

Referring now to the drawings in detail, wherein for the purpose ofillustration, there is disclosed a preferred embodiment of the presentinvention, the numeral represents an elongated cylindrical shank orstick having a tapered end portion l2 that is integrally formed with asubstantially semi-spherical knob or tip l4 whose radius issubstantially equal to the radius of the stick III.

The outer periphery of the tip 14 is provided with a plurality ofcircumferentially spaced grooves or channels [6 that are inclinedrelative to the longitudinal axis of the stick H). The grooves l6 eachinclude an inner end I8 and an outer end 20. The grooves diminish indepth and In practical use of the lifter, the user grasping the stickit! merely inserts the tip I4 into a garment and twists the stick sothat the garment will be wrapped about the tip with portions of thegarment received in the grooves [6. As the stick is raised, the garmentwill remain on the stick until the stick is again twisted or rotated.

In view of the foregoing description taken in conjunction with theaccompanying drawings it is believed that a clear understanding of thedevice will be quite apparent to those skilled in this art. A moredetailed description is accordingly deemed unnecessary.

It is to be understood, however, that even though there is herein shownand described as preferred embodiment of the invention the same issusceptible to certain changes fully comprehended by the spirit of theinvention as herein described and the scope of the appended claim.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A clothes lifting device comprising an elongated cylindrical stickhaving a tapered end, a substantially semi-spherical tip on said taperedend, said tip having a plurality of circumferentially spaced groovestherein, said grooves being inclined relative to the longitudinal axisof said stick and including inner and outer ends, the width of saidgrooves diminishing from the inner ends of said grooves toward the outerends of said grooves.

EDWARD P. ZIMMERLY.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

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